ABSTRACT
Hot rolling of steel requires an initial high material temperature of up to 1320°C. Reheat furnaces are commonly employed to meet this basic requirement, although there exist
a few routines where a reheat furnace can be eliminated, such as DR (direct rolling) and Castrip® (Castrip LLC, USA) processes. In most of the steel at manufacturing works, reheat furnaces serve as the essential link between the casting and rolling operations [1], as illustrated in Figure 9.1.
